Pete just posted the following note on the Transformers Collectors Club message board - "Blitzwing Bop - 11/17/09"

So the long delayed next installment of the Shattered Glass storyline will be out Tuesday.

FINALLY!!!!! oh what a glorious week it'll be! blitzwing bop on tuesday and the ongoing released on wednesday!!!

At last!

I'm somewhat lukewarm over the ongoing, but this I am most eager for.

Sure it will be.

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Definitely the most enjoyable fic coming out lately has been from the club. Sadly it's dwindled down to a few comic pages every 2 months in the magazine since Botcon. This will help.

Finally.

The prose tales are one of the best perks of being a Club member, and we've been waiting for this one since friggin BOTCON.

Hooray!

Man, I can't wait to read it.

About time. I was starting to regret being a member.

Okay, gonna post this here and on the Club boards... There is a TON of news in next issue. Not gonna reveal any of it right now BUT we have like, hmmm, yeah, looks like three huge announcements. PLUS there is a very cool bonus in next issue fiction wise. I actually am behind this, my first foray in to comic writing solo AND my first since DoFP. I have a had my hands in most everything we have done in one way or another story wise over the last 3 years but this one was all me so I can get all the credit or all the dogging on this one lol... I am excited about it though.

But yeah, we have all kinds of reveals next issue. Kind of fitting for our final issue of 2009 and our 30th issue! Plan on us putting some of the news up online on the 23rd or 24th as well as some sneak peaks at the issue.

Whooooooo! I've been enjoying the TFCC stuff way, way more than I have the "mainstream" stuff at this point, so I'm glad this is finally coming out. Looking forward to all the cool news too, and the last part of Reunification, and whatever else you're throwing at us.

Do we have a location for Botcon 2010 perhaps?

Randy

I will say that it is not the BotCon 2010 announcement... All kinds of work is being done on that front though. The box set is done. We are starting deco's in the next week or so. We really feel like we have more time this year too so we will be going over them with a fine tooth comb.

Also, everyone involved with the set this year is very satisfied with the molds we chose. I hope you all dig the theme as well as the characters we selected. Lots of freedom this year!

Did Fun Publications ever publish trade paperbacks of Timeline stories?

Sadly no. "Games of Deception" was released as a summer special by Diamond back in 2007. Shattered Glass (the debuting story) was released last year and "Balancing Act" was released by IDW back in 2007. I'm really hoping that FP will release a TPB of the Timeline stories, prose and everything, but I'm feeling that's a bit of a pipedream.

methinks this is a hint of some sort?

Optimuses of the Multiverse!

G1 Optimus: "Freedom is the right of all sentient beings"
Movie Optimus: "Then they'd best stay out of my way!" *slash, boom*

I'm hoping we see some crossover for the last part of Reunification. Why not have the Transtech authorities looking for Alpha Trion or other dimensional travelers appear on SG Cybertron? We usually get 2 bios or more an issue. I'd be happy with Nexus Prime and Omega Doom for this big issue.

I'd love to at least see a "Shattered Glass" omnibus of everything SG, although a plain paperback with just all of the various text stories would also be very welcome. Basically anything that makes all of this (seriously) enjoyable fiction available to the general public in some way. I'm sad about almost everyone thinking that the SGverse is nothing but the BotCon comic, as it means there's so much great stuff everyone's missing (not to mention a dearth of canon-based fanart/fic as a result... ahem), and Axiom Nexus has barely any love at all.


Ooooh, ditto on hoping we see a Nexus Prime bio, in the hopes that we'll get a little insight on how he got split into five TFs and placed all over the multiverse in the first place.

That would be cool...

If Nexus Prime's bio doesn't tell us which of the Primes from ROTF he is, then it sucks! SUUUUUUCKS!

(kiiiidding)

Awesome! Really looking forward to finding out what they are.

Randy

I just want to know why he got split. Did he get his ass handed to him by some universe's Fallen? Was he originally a traitor or something and the other members of the Thirteen split him as punishment? Is he Voltron?

He is the third one from the left.

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For seriously? I threaten to wiki this!

Impossible, he's quite obviously Vector Prime.

That's who I always pegged him as, if I had to choose. He's got the wings, and Kevin Michael Richardson's voice is close enough.

LOL... wow. I was not looking at anything when I made that comment. But if I had to choose I would say 4th from the left. That said, I am not part of that decision making process in the slightest so that is nothing more than me saying he kind of looks like him. Though it is worth noting, that while always a "Prime", his name was changed for comic release...

But if Nexus Prime was split into 5 smaller individuals for a VERY long time (as Breakaway was guarding the Super Energon pool for BILLIONS of years) howe could he even be one of the Primes from RotF? Not forgetting we only saw 7 out of 13.

Hasbro has already explained that the Multiverse does not always run on the same schedule; what happened billions of years ago in the Classics-verse could have only been thousands of years for the Movie-verse. Time just flowed differently between the two.

Movie continuity is outside the multiverse. So, Nexus Prime is one of the 13, but the FP one is a different one...

Another possibility is that the First Thirteen, unless said otherwise, aren't multiversal constants. That's my take, anyway.

...this is very interesting news.

whaaaaat.

But there's a multiversal stream name for the movieverse!

Yeah, and that is fine. Again, important thing to note, we have nothing to do with how the movie 13 are handled. How the character is handled long term is up to others.

Are the rest of the planned Shattered Glass prose stories going to still get published even though next year the comic will probably be doing something different? We still have two more to go, IIRC.

That's not what Forest said!

In fact, the Wiki got like a thesis paper written to us about how The Fallen was the same regardless of whether he was in movie continuity, Cybertron, Dreamwave or otherwise.

And nevermind the other Q&A answer where Hasbro rewrote their 13 Original Transformers thing a little just to accommodate what the movie said.

Oh, right, and what was said above. It has a Multiverse Address. It's part of the multiverse.

Hopefully "Transhuman" is well under way.

I've not given up hope we may see Bulletbike again. He's presumably an agent of Alpha Trion. If he can escale the Trantech authorities, where would he go to get away? Straight to SG Cybertron!

Three, I think. At BotCon they said there'd be a final year-end bonus story.

I'm not so sure.

As much as I'd love an excuse to read more about Megatron, Heatwave, Whisper, and the Predacons (especially seeing as how we're obviously never going to get to see Heatwave again post-Reunification, *fangirl sniffle*), I got the feeling that the prose stories were mostly going to concentrate on Earth.

Meanwhile, I'd think that if the comic was going to connect to anything, it'd be next year's storyline. (Which, granted, could be a return to TransTech for all I know--which I would love--but I'm expecting something new instead...)

That's fine

I don't see a problem at all. It's like I've been saying all along--the Movieverse (or any other TFverse) might be a part of at least some of the FunPub multiversal stories, but that doesn't mean that the FunPub stuff is automatically a part of the other TF continuities' stories/multiverses.

Which is fine for your personal canon but every official Transformers thing ever written is part of the same Multiverse.

I could swear one of the official editors just got done telling us it apparently isn't after all.

Maybe there are multiple movieverses? After all, we have Nightbeat 7 appear in Withered Hope, he's movieverse.

Pete Sinclair isn't the official word on that sort of thing, and even if he were, he'd have to be somehow able overrule six years of fiction, packaging bios, and otherwise (all written by Hasbro themselves) with one message board comment.

Even if Hasbro did change their position on the matter, they still have said what they've been saying and putting into stories for over the past half-decade. It'd take a long while to turn that sort of thing around and patch it up. Fiction says what it says, after all.

(In fact, when Hasbro Q&A said that only seven of the original 13 were Primes, the TF Wiki editorial decision was that the Q&A information didn't trump the in-story information that they were all Primes.)

Heck, Frenzy has been in Axiom Nexus.

Neither of those sentences makes sense. The "FP one is a different one"? He's the only Nexus Prime there is. He hasn't appeared in anything else!

Except that it doesn't, because the retcon in question showed up in FunPub fiction in the first place. If anything, the exact opposite is true: the vast majority of TF fiction, especially the newer stuff, either ignores or contradicts the whole idea.


Um. Again, this stuff has pretty much only shown up in FunPub stories for the most part and hasn't shown up in the newer non-FunPub stuff at all. Fiction does indeed say what it says, and what it says is that most continuities don't care about the whole multiverse thing. So there's nothing to patch up when only one recent continuity even cared about it in the first place, and it doesn't matter if they keep going with it anyway.

Personally, I'm not remotely surprised to find out that the Movieverse is separate from the FunPub stuff after all, as it was pretty obvious to anyone not engaging in wishful thinking that the Movieverse writers don't care what writers for an entirely different storyline are doing. If anything, it restores a nice bit of sanity to the proceedings.

(But mostly I'm amused at how a message board post from one official person gets taken as fact because it's what you wanted to hear, but a message board post from another official person that says what you don't want to hear is suddenly irrelevant "because it's only a message board post".)

I don't think Forest Lee's six-page thesis the wiki received about how The Fallen could be the same guy in every continuity was a Fun Pub production, nor the various blurbs on Titanium and Universe Unicron's packaging. These were story ideas not by Fun Publications, but by Hasbro. Brian Savage, nor Rik Alvarez, nor Pete Sinclair came up with these ideas. Again, they were from Hasbro's in-house fiction dude.

But I'm not going to go in depth with this with you. Again. We've had this argument on the Wiki with you like thirty times, and every time I lost like a year off my life.